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Return of a Native: Learning from the Land. Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and Global Generation presents: Return of a Native: Learning from the Land. Book launch. Vron Ware (author) in conversation with Shela Sheikh (Goldsmiths, University of London). Introduction from: Youth Ambassadors (Global Generation) and Malcolm James (University of Sussex) Date and time: Thu, 12 May 2022, 18:00 – 20:00 BST Location: Global Generation, Story Garden, London. NW1 1DF RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/return-of-a-native-learning-from-the-land-book-launch-tickets-323040391507 Please join us for the launch of Vron Ware’s new book Return of a Native: Learning from the Land (Repeater). Compiled from a small corner of NW Hampshire, Return of a Native: Learning from the Land shows how to reconcile environmental writing and activism with a deep engagement with global history, politics and culture. This is a timely book that brings pressing questions of land, ecology and the environment into conversation with racism, nation, colonialism and gender. Through stories about chicken farming, cows, fertiliser, fast fashion, supermarket robots, riots, uprisings, landowners, house prices and many other topics, Vron Ware asks us to reflect on how the rural might be closer to all our realities than we might otherwise imagine. The book launch will be followed by a short reception. Vron Ware has been writing about racism, gender, history and national identity since the 1980s. Her books include Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History; Who Cares about Britishness?; and Military Migrants: Fighting for YOUR Country. She has worked as a journalist, photographer, sociologist and geographer, and is currently visiting prof in the Dept of Gender Studies, LSE. Her website is http://vronware.org/ Shela Sheikh teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she directs the MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy : https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-postcolonial-culture-global-policy/ and co-leads the Critical Ecologies Research Stream https://critical-ecologies.org . Work on colonialism and ecology includes ‘The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions’, a special issue of Third Text co-edited with Ros Gray (2018). For more information on Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/ For more information on Global Generation https://www.globalgeneration.org.uk/ Dr Malcolm James Co-Director, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk